Lunes, Agosto 27, 2018

The court martial’s conviction of Army Lt.
Colonel Hector Maraña, treasurer of the cadets of the Philippine Military
Academy, his eventual dismissal from the service, and his trip to the slammer
in Muntinlupa as ordered recently by President Rodrigo Duterte could
probably answer the complaints of Filipino foreign military cadets in the U.S
particularly at the United States Military Academy and South Korea about their
deprived allowances the PMA owed them.

Cashiered Army Lt. Colonel Hector Maraña

In my previous column’s Filipino
Cadets BareSad Plights at West Point I wrote that USMA
Second Class Cadet Jesson Peñaflor whined that he and his fellow-
West Point, New York based cadet have to pay each $2,000 (P105, 270.00) their
education and training supplies and equipment at USMA before they trudge their
four years military and academic courses.

A Filipino in a military academy in South Korea
wrote: “We are 15 here in Korea, sir. Three cadets are sent to the army
air force and the naval academy (sic) every year here, sir and three are at the
language institute studying the required language, sir. There are also cadets
in Japan, Australia and Canada, sir. Every one of us are experiencing the same
thing, sir but for the service we want to give in the future we are trying to
keep ourselves firm and strong so none of us will even think of quitting and
leaving the service,” one of the 15 cadets, who asked for anonymity, said.

Martes, Agosto 21, 2018

In case it will be favorably acted, will the Federal
Constitution bring this impoverished and rambunctious country to Nirvana
instead of hell as based on the poor financial capacity of the country and the
downgrades it awaits with credit watchdogs?

According to the Consultative Committee that hammered the
draft constitution, the sharing of wealth that primordially be taken from the
taxes of the Filipinos and businessmen would be at least 50 percent to the
Federal Government (FG) and 50 percent to the 18 Regional Federal Governments
(RFG).

The additional burden to the coffer of the new
bureaucracy will be between P44 billion to P72 billion for 17 Regions (not 18
Regions) under Federalism, according to Rosario Manasan, senior research fellow
of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS).

Is this the way to inflict more burdens to the already
hapless Filipinos in these regions?

Department of Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez
III told the senators on a budget hearing that if Federalism will be shoved in
the throat of the Filipinos, this country “will go to hell” not with “will go
to the dogs” as an idiom usually used by writers ha ha ha !

What with the P120 billion deficits yearly needed
by those handicapped regions to attain the physical and financial need of
Federalism.

It means rich regions like Metro Manila, Calabarzon, and
Region 3 could easily remunerate them, paid the construction of their offices,
and can even have surplus as they collect more taxes in their burgeoning areas.

"E-PEPE, E-PEPE, E-DEDE, E-PEPE,
PEPEDERALISMO!"
HesusMariaHusef ! So this was the proposed ballyhooed campaign
advertisement by the superiors of Presidential Communication Operations Office
Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson to educate us Flips, er, Filipinos about what is
federal form of government?
Where an "effeminate" blogger Drew Oliver danced before the eyes of
Uson and viewers of You Tube while he incessantly touched, as part of the
choreography, his breasts and crotch in a presentation to be given to a female
dancer while a jingle plays "E-Dede, E Pepe..."
Dede and Pepe are colloquial Filipino words for boobs and vagina.
The controversial information dissemination from the PCOO has a staggering
budget of P90 million.

FONDLE - Singer Mocha Uson asked an FM disc jockey on this photo to grope her during her interview.

Was it Uson, my village mate in Dagupan City, who said that most of the ASEAN
members' countries are Federal in form?"Napag-iwanan na ang Pinas, ika nga".
Gee whiz, aside from Malaysia as the only Federal formed of government in the
10 ASEAN countries, federalism has nothing to do with the burgeoning growth of
Malaysia.

BAYAMBANG – The five criminal cyber libel charges filled
by the mayor here against a user of Face Book will deter those members of the
popular social media who dishonor publicly other people.

Mayor Cezar T. Quiambao said that the cases of five
counts of cyber libel he filled against Val Adriano Guevara, a resident here,
will be used to request Face Book to unmask the persons behind the demolition
jobs against him and others at the social media’s records kept at its
headquarter at Menlo Park in California, United States.

“If Face Book acts on it, it will become precedence where other offended
people around the world can emulate what we have done here,” the mayor
told this newspaper.

The fictitious Face Book’s account of Juana
Malasakit where she and other users who hide with aliases have been
posting vitriol with impunity against Mayor Quiambao, former
councilor Levin Uy, who is the Executive Director of Quiambao's Kasama
Kita sa Barangay, and other officials of the local government unit here.

Linggo, Agosto 5, 2018

Compared to his counterpart in other provinces, an aggrieved contractor
in Nueva Ecija got balls.

Three arrested murder suspects’ incriminated young contractor
Christian Saquilabon to be the mastermind in the broad daylight ambushed
that killed General Tinio, Nueva Ecija mayor Ferdinand Bote.

Both Saguilabo and the late mayor were into contracting business with
government projects.

One of the reasons the mayor was timed by the assassins, his itinerary
was patterned when he went to the office of the National Irrigation
Administration.

Diagram and Links on the grisly murder of a mayor.

As based on my seasoned experience in the media, every time we go to
the office of the NIA, those persons who brought there their more than million
pesos’ Sports Utility Vehicle or SUV like what the mayor to his Toyota Fortuner
we assumed as contractors looking for probable lucrative projects with either
the provincial or regional irrigation’s boss.

Saquilabon and Bote had conflict on the implementation of the
P96-million project to moreover develop the Minalungao Convergence Park Zone —
a popular tourist destination in Nueva Ecija located in General Tinio.

As the election of the presidency of the Liga ng mga Barangay (the
former Association of Barangay Council (ABC) is forthcoming in July 30 as
mandated by law, many moneyed candidates for ex –officio position of a
provincial board member have been busily meeting ABC Presidents of towns and
cities in some concealed restaurants for some preliminaries.

Here P50,000 beer monies in the enveloped were surreptitiously sneaked to the
hands of voters before the final hundreds of thousands if not a million pesos
will be offered to a position that gives only almost one hundred thousand pesos
monthly, son of a gun!

A friend told me that this practice in the country of buying those
towns and cities' presidents of the Liga is incredible and insane.

“It’s insane for you, but for
the moneyed bets, they called it prestige for that elusive title of being
called “The Honorable Board Member Juan or Juana Ramanam Amin,” I told him.